Why do you say that the hermit is a unique concept of Chinese culture?

Because you hermit Chinese traditional culture bred out of a unique concept. It is different from the concept of traditional Chinese culture, but it has a relationship with the mainstream of traditional Chinese thought.

As we all know, the mainstream of traditional Chinese culture is Confucianism Confucianism emphasizes the world. Since ancient times, Confucianism has emphasized "cultivate oneself, unify the family, rule the country, and pacify the world", and the literati who were y imbued with Confucianism had the will to serve the country. Only by participating in the decision-making of national affairs, and by serving the country with the will to realize the value of one's own life, this is the core concept of Confucianism, which is also the top political ideology of the literati in the ancient times.

Ancient literati were expecting to show their ambition on this political ideal from Du Fu's "To the king, Yao and Shun, and then to make the customs simple". It can be seen, but in this way forward there are many obstacles, due to the king's disapproval or the corruption of the officialdom so that these people in the officialdom cool heart. Out of the pursuit of high-level quality, they are not willing to corrupt officials, with the corrupt officials, so there is a hermit, these hermits are political aspirations and the impact of the contradictions of the reality of the product of the impact of factors they are not not eager to enter the world but because of the entry into the world no door.

Of course, there is also a class of people in the officialdom struggling to realize their own ambitions, but after being hit by a change of heart, they combined with Confucianism and Taoism to put forward the idea of "to reach is to help the whole world, the poor is to be good to themselves", of which Bai Juyi is a representative.

But there is also a category of alternative hermits who do not really want to get out of the political group, but because they do not get the attention of the king, they have no choice but to retreat into the pretense of seclusion, seclusion to knock on the door of their own politics, they will be the ancient hermits of the seclusion of the career as their own political resources, which is represented by Li Bai's seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain.

Because of the differences between our country and China's cultural roots, the hermit has also become a unique presence in our traditional culture.